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29 thoughts on “2018 British Championships Results”

If anyobody hasn’t seen Alia Leats beam, go watch it right now. Highlight of the competition!
Other thing of note: Tinkler threw a moors.
Georgia-Mae was injured and had to withdraw. (Why you gotta do me like this, team GB? Did someone curse this programme or something?)

Georgia-Mae is always injured. She couldn’t do the World Cup in London last year, she got injured in warm-ups for Euros and now she’s pulled out of the British Championships after falling two or three times on bars. I’m surprised she’s still getting chance after chance. I know it’s not really her fault, but she’s not delivering. I think Charlie Fellows is salty AF that she didn’t get a Commonwealths spot and I can kind of see why. GB seem to hype some gymnasts and lowball others who are just as talented.

Right. There’s no depth there at all. The level of competition this weekend was pretty woeful. With Frags and the Downies out, everyone else but Tinkler is basically B team material. Alice is solid but still not really competitive internationally. Georgia is competitive on bars but injured more often than not. They were depending on just a few girls and now they’re all injured at once, they’re screwed. GB has decent funding for gymnastics and dozens of top class gyms. They should be doing better than this. Hopefully the Downies will be back for Euros and Worlds, but Frags won’t be, and that’s a problem.

I think they’re almost there. Amy was really the only world standard WAG gymnast at nationals. The only reason others won titles over her is really that she was having a bad comp. She downgraded her vault to avoid injury (imagine if they lost her for the CWG as well) and had an uncharacteristic fall on bars. I think if Worlds were tomorrow, she would be the only one capable of making any finals. GMF has the skills on bars but is almost always either injured in warm up or quals or makes huge mistakes. This is in no way intended to be disrespectful to the other gymnasts on the squad, but I think it’s a fair assessment. They might be ready in a year or two but they’re not ready now, with important comps coming up and most of the strongest gymnasts out. They really shouldn’t be in this situation given the training facilities and funding they have. They’re neither a small country (population wise) not a poor one. I think they have already over-relied on Frags and the Downies especially and now the consequences of doing that are becoming apparent.

Yeah, they need to rely on gymnasts other than Ellie Downie, Frags, Becky Downie, and Tinks. If they had all of them and GMF/Kelly SImm, they would be a medal threat, but with all the in injuries, they’re in trouble

They’re difficulty bonuses, which most countries use to encourage gymnasts to upgrade. Lots of countries do it, like China, Italy, Canada for juniors, etc, so I think it’s more about hoping gymnasts will want to upgrade so they can win national titles or stand out at a high level at domestic meets to get their names out there. I think they’re pretty aware they won’t get those scores abroad, since they know where the bonus comes from.